Writing screenplays makes me a better musician because it clears my head. After writing a movie, I go running back to music as fast as I can.

Rock music is the province of the young, and it should be made by young people. I'm not running around in a pair of spandex tights trying to reclaim my youth.

Sorrow's child grieves not what has passed, but all the past still yet to come.

I'm hugely self-critical in the morning.

I've spent my life butting my head against other people's lack of imagination.

Into the mercy seat I climb My head is shaved, my head is wired And like a moth that tries To enter the bright eye I go shuffling out of life Just to hide in death awhile And anyway I never lied.

The band is a living, breathing thing. It grows in the same way we do as human beings and if it doesn't, it dies. It's important to feed the organism, and one way of doing that is to set musical challenges that keep it alive.